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    <center>Scilab Syntax</center>
    <div align="right">Last update : April 1993</div>
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      <b>names</b> -  scilab names syntax</p>
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      <font color="blue">Description</font>
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    Names of variables and functions must begin with a letter or one of
    the following special characters  '<tt>
        <b>%</b>
      </tt>', '<tt>
        <b>_</b>
      </tt>', '<tt>
        <b>#</b>
      </tt>', '<tt>
        <b>!</b>
      </tt>', '<tt>
        <b>$</b>
      </tt>', '<tt>
        <b>?</b>
      </tt>'.</p>
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    Next characters may be letters or digits or any special character in '<tt>
        <b>_</b>
      </tt>', '<tt>
        <b>#</b>
      </tt>', '<tt>
        <b>!</b>
      </tt>', '<tt>
        <b>$</b>
      </tt>', '<tt>
        <b>?</b>
      </tt>'</p>
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    Names may be as long as you want but only the first 24  characters are
    taken into account. Upper and lower case letters are different.</p>
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      <font color="blue">Examples</font>
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//Valid names
%eps
A1=123
#Color=8
My_Special_Color_Table=rand(10,3)
//Non valid names
//1A , b%, .C
 
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